Letter: Roe vs. Wade a terrible decision

To the editor

Updated 4:22 pm, Thursday, August 1, 2013

M. Tracey Brooks, president of Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York, in her letter bemoans our state Senate voting against an opportunity to enshrine Roe vs. Wade into New York law ("N.Y. Senate failed women's health," July 4).

Roe vs. Wade was a terrible judicial decision very analogous to the "Dred Scott vs. Sanford" decision before the Civil War. Under "Dred Scott," humans were stripped of personhood because they were black. In Roe vs. Wade, humans are denied personhood because they are of insufficient age.